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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
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"Beloved of the LORD." Nathan gave the baby Solomon this name at God's direction, right after the story of David and Bathsheba and the death of their first child, but Solomon is the name that stuck.
"Beloved of the LORD." Nathan gave the baby Solomon this name at God's direction, right after the story of David and Bathsheba and the death of their first child, but Solomon is the name that stuck.
The name the prophet Nathan gave to the infant Solomon at God's direction, meaning "beloved of the LORD" (2 Sam. 12:25). It marks God's favor toward Solomon immediately after the account of David's sin with Bathsheba and the death of their first child, though "Solomon" remained the name history remembered him by.
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- 2 Samuel 12:25
